#file management

If you're looking for an easy online storage solution for Windows (and have a gmail account kicking around), check out the Gmail Drive by bjarke. It's a free shell extension for Windows that basically adds a new drive to your computer. When you try to access the drive through Windows explorer, you are prompted for your gmail login details (you have the option of saving the details to avoid having to login each time you access the drive)…

One of our techs recently ran across a problem with a new Windows Vista Business laptop trying to synchronize offline files to a Windows Server 2000 file server. Synchronization would start, but the Sync Center in Vista would show failures for every single file that was attempted to be sync'd. The error message read something to the extent of "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process". We tried the usual: checking permissions on the folders being offline'd (I know that's probably not a word, but you get what I mean); deleting his local cache of Offline Files; disabling and then re-enabling Offline Files. But we just kept on banging our heads against the same error. At first, just about any web search for the error resulted in either something about Windows Home Server or databases or something of the like. Eventually, though, we struck gold: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296264/en-us: Configuring opportunistic locking in Windows…

I am pretty sure I'm not the only one who wants something more descriptive than DSC1900298.JPG to name my digital photos. And yes, I know that Windows Explorer allows you to rename pictures en masse, but I don't like the convention they have chosen in that the first file is named [common name].JPG, then the subsequent files are named [common name] (2).JPG and so on and so forth. I had a few requirements for how I wanted to go about this: Get rid of the parentheses. If I will be posting those pics online anywhere, I wanted to keep the names as free of special characters as I can. Number the first file. The Windows Explorer route does not number the first file when doing bulk renames. This is easy enough to do manually, but I just don't want to bother. Keep a constant number of digits in the index number. I want the renaming process to take into account how many pictures there are and adjust the number of index digits accordingly. If there are fewer than 10 files/images, then only 1 digit is required (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4...9). If there are between 10 and 99 files (inclusive), then two digits are required (01, 02, 03...10, 11, 12...99). I think you get the idea. Windows definitely doesn't do that…